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Word: temperedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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For more than a decade cinemaudiences have known short-tempered, pince-nezed Actor Robert McWade as the crabbiest, crustiest crosspatch that ever foreclosed a mortgage or sicked the dogs on a luckless swain. Last week in Hollywood, 56-year-old Actor McWade, in the oppressive regimentals of a Civil War...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All Through | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Stage Manager P. J. Carolan, in playing Fluther Good, presents an ordinary, ignorant, proud Dublin tenement-dweller with splendid vividness. M. J. Dolan is Uncle Peter Flynn, and amiable old man made the pathetic butt of a Socialist's humor. That socialist, played by Denis O'Dea, is reduced to...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/14/1938 | See Source »

Shrewdly President Roosevelt let others launch his attack on oligopoly, dispatching lieutenants to rostrum and microphone. Politicians suspected that all this was a build-up for a similar attack of his own. presumably to be delivered in his Jackson Day dinner speech this coming week. Opening shot was fired in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Attack on Oligopoly | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

Gaunt, bony Mr. Culbertson combines the hottest temper in a hot-tempered business with the exquisite politeness of a cinematic headwaiter. One day in 1923 he met a young woman whose skill at bridge so astounded him that he asked her to marry him. Soon Mr. Culbertson started to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Culbertsons, Inc. | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Mansell buys a dilapidated Tudor country house as a wedding present for his beautiful, sweet-tempered fiancée Margaret. When he fences out the fox hunters because he is sorry for the foxes, he brings the whole countryside down on him. Margaret is killed in an automobile accident the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Munitions Man | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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